Sirplus closes all branches
Lars-Thorben Niggehoff | 08.09.2021The startup that fights food waste is giving up its brick-and-mortar business because of the Corona pandemic. But online trading is to continue.
The food rescue start-up Sirplus has to close its brick-and-mortar stores. The five branches of the company in Berlin are affected. The reason is massive sales losses, as founder Raphael Fellmer confirmed to the RBB confirmed. All of the approximately 50 employees and trainees will lose their jobs at Sirplus, but Fellmer says he is trying to place them with other companies.
Sirplus is in an ambivalent situation, as Fellmer explained: the online business with the food that the start-up saves from waste is doing extremely well, also because of the Corona pandemic. But this and the lockdowns associated with it had led to unsustainable sales losses in the stores, he said.
"It saddens me that with the closure of the Rettermärkte, we can no longer represent the issue of food waste so present on the streets of Berlin," the founder told RBB. Fellmer had founded Sirplus in 2017. The company buys food that is sorted out by producers and wholesalers for various reasons and passes it on cheaply to its own customers. That's how it aims to reduce waste. Fellmer had also presented the concept on "Die Höhle der Löwen" in the past, but did not close a deal there.
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